CCSM does not run when installing from source

[Robert M]

When installing compiz from source, most things seem to be installed, properly, however CCSM does not startup. It fails with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/ccsm", line 92, in <module>
    import compizconfig
ImportError: No module named compizconfig

What I did to reproduce:

bzr branch lp:compiz
cd compiz
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
sudo make install
ccsm

No compiz packages are installed on the system, so it is completely clean.

[Robert M (osfan6313)]

I've figured out why this is happening. It seems that compizconfig.so is being installed to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages, but if I copy it over to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages, it starts up.

[Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)]

Dunno how or why this regressed again. Sounds like some kind of change within the distro python.

[Michael Z Freeman (michael-z-freeman)]

Got this on BZR 20131217 in Debian. Copying to dist-packages fixed it.

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

The variable COMPIZ_DEB_BUILD needs to be set to build for a Debian-based platform since they use "dist-packages" for the Python search path and not "site-packages". See https://wiki.debian.org/Python for more information.

This is not a bug in Compiz since a workaround for the Debian policy is already provided. Closing as appropriate.